AuthorTopic: Wiki Structure (Read 15550 times)

The Vector Wiki structure is fine now but if it starts to grow it is going to need some structure for easy navigation. We've all seen good Wiki's and bad Wiki's. And we want this to be a useful Wiki.

Xeon has said "I do nothing without agreement from the other users"So I thought it was time to agree on some basic structure so all of those HOW TO's waiting to be written can be properly interlinked. .......ONCE!!!

(by the way this is my first attempt at a poll and I could not figure out how to put it in the Wiki thread)

Intermediate is unnecessary and will just cause grief when trying to categorize a page. Pages should be either 'beginner' or 'user'. Anyone who has advanced past the stage of beginner (or is endeavoring to do so) should be at least knowledgeable enough to decide for herself whether a presentation is at a level she can comprehend.

Links should be provided on beginner pages to "escalate" to more advanced presentations of information.

In addition, there should be a 'developer' category.

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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

I think for the 'top' of the hierarchy a subset of the forum might be a good idea, namely FAQs/Common Troubleshooting, Docs, and How-Tos. If an article is targeted more at 'advanced' users, I think just tagging it as such in some way would be the better way to go.

All the suggestions here are really good. I just want to add this: the gentoo wiki is great and we should take it as a model for contents and organization. I think the main page is a little hard to navigate though. The hardware section is great.http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page

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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise. --Jumalauta!!

I like that idea. Now how do we distinguish them apart. Perhaps some kind of logo.Before this project began I was toying with the idea of setting up a wiki this winter for beginers (me). I had the name 'NEWBSAUCE' in mind and imagined a baby penguin in a diaper being spoon fed. My motto was going to be "Strap on your bib,". Perhaps some of the artists can come up with something like this.Or we could just go with a different page colour.

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the gentoo wiki is great and we should take it as a model for contents and organization

I see some of them offer specific side panels for specific namespaces. Depending on the namespace structure you choose perhaps side panel decoration (colour or images) could aid in navigation. But if begginer articles appear in each category then it may be easier to just mark individual pages with an image or tag like your html author insert.

The difference with DokuWiki's namespaces is that an article can exist in only one namespace. In fact, that's pretty much the whole point of namespaces. With a regular 'tagging' system, on the other hand, an article can have all the tags you want.